Now we know disturbing truth on Benghazi attack

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Posted Jan. 21, 2014 at 2:00 AM

Posted Jan. 21, 2014 at 2:00 AM

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To the Editor:

Now you know the dreadful truth: your president lied for two weeks, blaming the Benghazi attack on local reaction to an American video, even after he had been informed within minutes by top military leaders that it was a planned terrorist attack.

In recently declassified information, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation heard from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey and Gen. Carter Ham, who at the time was head of AFRICOM, the Defense Department combatant command with jurisdiction over Libya, that they, with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, had shared their knowledge with the president in the Oval Office within minutes.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose ambassador, Chris Stevens, was targeted, kidnapped and murdered, had nothing to say then; but whose later (comment): "What difference does it make?" may never be forgotten.

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who reiterated the administration's falsehoods on countless TV channels immediately after the attack, is now the United States national security adviser.